Two brothers, a rabbi and a comedian, try to figure out how to do Judaism during a pandemic. See if you can figure out who’s who. Hosted by Moshe & David Kasher.
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Bringing you recent lectures, classes, and programs from the Hadar Institute, Ta Shma is where you get to listen in on the beit midrash. Come and listen on the go, at home, or wherever you are. Hosted by Rabbi Avi Killip of the Hadar Institute.
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"BETA" comes from producer/host Doug Gordon. BETA is a polyphonic mosh pit where high culture and low culture collide, taking an immersive, innovative, playful and provocative approach to exploring arts, culture and technology.
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Your hilarious and insightful guide to Jewish ideas and culture. Join journalist Dan Crane and comedian Jessica Chaffin (Ronna & Beverly) as they explore activism, Jewish atheism, anti-semitism, love, sex, comedy, death and more with guests like David Wain, David Baddiel, Rabbi Sharon Brous, the Sklar Brothers, Tiffany Shlain, Moshe Kasher, Joel Stein and many others. A project of Reboot.
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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes is a podcast about - well - jokes, and the people who tell them. Each week, a comedian will play one of their jokes and then break it down with Vulture.com Senior Editor Jesse David Fox.
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"Trash Tuesday" is hosted by one comedian, actress & LA Hot Girl named Esther Povitsky and one seasoned podcaster, entrepreneur and part mermaid Khalyla Kuhn. They are just 2 S.L.U.G.S (Sexy Little Ugly Girls) unloading their trauma, intrusive thoughts and wild takes for all the sluggies out there to love, hate or relate. Tune in every Tuesday and enjoy the trash! xoxox Follow Us: Trash Tuesday Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/itstrashtuesday Trash Tuesday TikTok - https://www.tiktok.co ...
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Join Tawny Newsome (Star Trek: Lower Decks) and Paul F. Tompkins (BoJack Horseman, Comedy Bang Bang) in a wide-ranging and often hilarious take on the Star Trek universe. With unparalleled access to Star Trek luminaries, celebrity superfans, and behind-the-scenes creative professionals, The Pod Directive takes a smart, witty and thoughtful look at all things Trek – both old and new. Offering a high-level discussion of the themes, ideas and characters that resonate across the history of the f ...
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R. David Kasher on Parashat Ha'azinu: The Poetry of Torah, Part 2
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Last week, we discussed the significance of the poem that God tells Moshe to write down in Parashat VaYelekh, "Now, write for yourselves this poem and teach it to the Children of Israel" (Deuteronomy 31:19). Most of the classic Medieval commentators (Rashi, Ramban, Rabbeinu Behaye, Abarbanel, and others) understand “this” to be a reference to the p…
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For listeners: You can get 20% off your first order. Use code TRASHTUESDAY!Go to https://www.rocketrx.com and enter code: TRASHTUESDAY at checkout for 20% off your first order. Follow the link in the description! See Esther LIVE! ___________________________________________________________________ This week we have the hilarious Atsuko Okatsuka (the…
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This week on BETA, hip-hop historian Nadirah Simmons highlights the game-changing ladies that made history in pop music. And one of crime fiction's greatest writers, George Pelecanos, talks aout his most autobiographical work yet. And journalist Daniel de Visé on the history of The Blues Brothers.
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R. David Kasher on Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh: The Poetry of Torah, Part 1
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In Parashat Nitzavim Moshe’s grand oratory comes to a close, and in Parashat VaYelekh he turns to the process of writing the Torah down. The parashah records two distinct acts of writing, in two very different styles: a book and a poem.By Hadar Institute
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R. Shai Held: Teshuvah and Transformation Part 2
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To prepare ourselves for the approaching Days of Awe, we'll engage in two sets of reflections. In this second part, we'll consider some of the very different ways that Rabbis Abraham Isaac Kook and Joseph Solveitchik conceptualize teshuvah and ask whether and how they can each challenge us to grow as Jews and as human beings. Recorded on Hadar's Vi…
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This week on "BETA," Simon Rich joins us to talk about his short story collection, "Glory Days." Helen Phillips explores Artificial Intelligence in her suspenseful novel, "Hum." And author Chris Nashawaty revisits the epic summer of 1982 - when Star Wars and Sci-Fi Fever hit it's peak.
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R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Tavo: Wellsprings of Torah
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In Parashat Ki Tavo, Moshe and the elders of Israel command the people, on the day they arrive into Land, to set up twelve large stones, and “to write on them all the words of this Torah” (Deuteronomy 27:3). Moshe then repeats this charge a few verses later, but this time adds extra emphasis with an unusual verb.…
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Poker, Thirst Traps & Lying Lawyers w/ Gina Darling
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R. Shai Held: Teshuvah and Transformation Part 1
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To prepare ourselves for the approaching Days of Awe, we'll engage in two sets of reflections. In this first part, we'll explore some key passages on teshuvah from Maimonides', paying special attention to how he creatively reads Talmudic sources to make the spiritual-ethical-educational points he thinks are important for us. Recorded on Hadar's Vir…
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This week on "BETA," actor and comedian Zach Woods on his pitch-perfect NPR parody, “In the Know.” Also, comedian Steph Tolev on being filthy and funny. And Scott Guild on his multimedia novel, "Plastic."
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R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Teitzei: A Life in Pieces
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The rules of inheritance are just another law in Deuteronomy’s massive catalog of laws, but something in the way it’s written sounds like a fragment from some lost legend. It somehow breaks the heart to hear them. A hated wife, in the shadow of a beloved one. A husband’s unfair disregard. And the poor child who was innocently born into disfavor. It…
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Work-shopping Areas w/ Moshe Kasher (Ft. Rick Glassman)
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Thank you to our sponsor: RocketRx. For listeners, you can get 20% off your first order. Go to: RocketRX.com and enter code: TRASHTUESDAY at checkout for 20% off your first order. ________________________________________________________________________ After Moshe crashes the awkward Rick episode, Rick crashes right back into Moshe's episode & they…
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R. Aviva Richman: The Power and Limits of Radical Hesed
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What does it mean to think of hesed as the bedrock of Jewish practice? Rav Aviva explores this question through an essay by Rav Yitzhak Hutner, the author of Pahad Yitzhak, in which he argues that the most foundational attribute of the world is Hesed. Recorded at the Manger Winter Learning Seminar 2024. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.amazonaw…
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This week on "BETA," Rachel Kushner returns to discuss her latest novel, "Creation Lake." Documentary director Sam Green talks about his fascinating film "32 Sounds: Exploring the Audio World." And Carrie Courogen on her biography of one of the greatest comic geniuses of all time, Elaine May.
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R. Avi Strausberg on Rosh Chodesh Elul: What Does Torah Offer Us This Year?
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Back in Elul of 2023, when I began this year of writing Divrei Torah for the holidays, we didn’t know what devastation lay ahead. In retrospect, each of the Divrei Torah I’ve written this year can be read in light of the events of October 7th. Each holiday celebrated, every encounter with Torah is refracted through the lens of the last eleven month…
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A New Rick Glassman Meets a New Esther Povitsky
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LAST DAY TO ORDER NEW MERCH 9/3/2024!!!!!! GET IT HERE: https://www.trashtuesdaymerch.com The question on everyone’s lips: Has Parenthood changed the dynamic between Rick and Esther? Kinder? Sweeter? Less hostile? Will Rick be nice 5% of the time rather than 3%? Will things remain on rails all the way through the episode? WILL Trash Tuesday become …
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This week on "BETA," Comedian Moshe Kasher on being a "Subculture Vulture." Also, Sloane Crosley explores love, loss and grief. And "There There" author Tommy Orange on his long-awaited followup, "Wandering Stars."
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Kate Berlant Teaches us How To be Healthy
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This week on BETA, David Schurmann discusses his documentary My Penguin Friend. Award-winning music journalist Erin Osmon talks with us about music from the Midwest. Also, we'll hear from horror writer Paul Tremblay on his new book, Horror Movie.
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R. David Kasher on Parashat Eikev: The Hand of God
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Of all the anthropomorphic images used to describe God in the Torah, one of the most richly developed is “the hand of God.” The image appears for the first time in the Book of Exodus, and then is reworked and nuanced in various ways throughout the rest of that book. Here in the Book of Deuteronomy, in Parashat Eikev, Moshe will draw on several of t…
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Let's Bring Back Arranged Marriages w/ Lisa Gilroy
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R. Elie Kaunfer: Praying Against Our Enemies in the Aleinu
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In this session, we will look at one of the most controversial - and censored - prayers in our tradition: Aleinu. How are we meant to understand the lines in these prayers? Who are the enemies and how might we relate to those concepts today? Who censored the prayers - and how? This class will explore all these questions through various textual trad…
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Legendary actor Billy Dee Williams talks about his lifetime in the arts and his landmark roles (including his famous turn as Lando in "Star Wars"). Also, author M.D. Dunn on the life and career of Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. And Ed Park talks about his mind-bending novel, “Same Bed Different Dreams.”…
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R. David Kasher on Parashat Va'Etchanan: Seeking Acceptance
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The opening of Parashat Va’Ethanan can serve both as a warning to us all, not to seek more power or privilege than is our due—but also as a reminder to honor our life’s accomplishments, and even to acknowledge, every one of us, our own greatness.By Hadar Institute
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Absolute Sweetie Pie Milana Vanytub AKA AT&T's it girl for over a decade is in the stu this week. The girls talk about what’s next for Milana’s career? Motherhood...babies….growing up as an immigrant in the states….Esther’s weird school play + of course we get into the details of a colonoscopy procedure one of the girls went through….I’m sure you c…
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R. Avi Strausberg on Tisha B'Av: “Let it Not Totter and Fall”
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Beresheit Rabbah (3:7) teaches that God created and destroyed many worlds before finally allowing this world, our world, to stand. This midrash is teaching us three things. First, destruction and loss are a part of the fabric of our very existence. There is no avoiding it; there is only wrestling and reconciling and accepting it. Second, the midras…
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This week on "BETA," award-winning filmmaker and TV creator Ed Zwick on his fortysomething years in Hollywood. Plus, comedian Laurie Kilmartin on her new special and actor Priya Guns on her new novel, “Your Driver is Waiting.”
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R. David Kasher on Parashat Devarim: Moshe the Deuteronomist
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As we head into the Book of Deuteronomy, we will quickly notice that something has changed. The style of narration is different than we have seen in the Torah so far. This book will consist mostly of Moshe’s own words. The first five verses set the stage for Moshe’s great final oratory. What follows for the next 33 chapters is Moshe retelling the s…
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